"A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy" (St. Martin's Press), by Helen Rappaport: The year 1862 was a very good one for merchants of grief. Prince Albert, beloved consort of Queen Victoria, had died the previous December, and his bereft widow declared that the period of public mourning should be "the longest term in modern times."
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